Joan Michelson's book, published both in English and in Romanian translation, is part of the series entitled Lidia Vianu Translates. The books included in it are published both online, at Contemporary Literature Press, and on paper, by Editura Integral. The series will include both English writers translated into Romanian, and Romanian writers translated into English. All books will be issued as Parallel Texts.
Joan Michelson won first prize in the Bristol Poetry Competition, the Torriano Competition, and she received the Hamish Canham prize from the Poetry Society of England. Her writing has been selected for several British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. Originally from New England, USA, Joan lives in London, England.
The patrons of this undertaking are, besides the University of Bucharest, The British Council, The Romanian Cultural Institute, and the Romanian Writers' Union.
Some of the English poets included in the series so far have worked with Lidia Vianu's graduate students on the translation of an anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry, http://editura.mttlc.ro/contemporary-romanian-poetry.html. This collaboration is a mechanism that has perfected with time. The MA Programme for the Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text has become a brand in literary translation from and into English.
Last year, this graduate programme was ten years old. As a sign of recognition, its patrons have supported Lidia Vianu, director of the programme, to organize a first Masterclass in literary translation, for which six British poets have been invited to work with Romanian MTTLC graduates on translations from Romanian poetry into English. The second issue of that remarkable encounter will take place this year, between 814 May, and it will focus on fiction this time.

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